Washington DC:
The White House said on Tuesday (US local time) that there was a productive conversation between the US and Russia and shared that there could be economic participation between the two countries, but before a ceasefire needs to be taken.
During the White House briefing, the comment was made by the press secretary of the White House Karolin Levit.
Speaking on the agreement with Russia, even if Russia agreed to do anything for Steve Witcoff, Levit said that when he wouldn’t want to get out of the conversation, “What I can tell, was a productive conversation, as President Avteeth Steve Witcoff said last night that Russia said last night that Russia wants to end this war and the President believes that with the President.”
He said, “There is an encouragement for Russia to end this war, and perhaps it may be an economic partnership with the United States, but we need to see a ceasefire first, and President and President Envoy Witcoff made it very clear for the Russians.”
His remarks were followed on Monday on Monday, US President Donald Trump blamed the Biden administration for the Russia-Ukraine war and claimed that if the 2020 election was not “rigged”, there would not have been a war.
Sharing a post on social media platform Truth social, Trump wrote, “The war between Russia and Ukraine is a war of biden, not mine. I just reached here, and during my tenure, I had no problem stopping it. I had no problem in stopping it. President Putin and all others respected your President! The terrible war would never happen.”
He further criticized both former President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelansky for dealing with the situation.
“President Zelancesi and Cruelty Joe Biden did an absolutely terrible job in allowing this traces to start. There were many ways to stop it from starting. But it’s past. Now we have to get it to stop and fast.”
Meanwhile, President Trump said that Russia’s deadly missile attack on Sumi of Ukrainian city on Sunday was called “a mistake”, it was called “terrible thing”, even members of his administration went ahead with condemnation, who served as a rare criticism of Moscow, while the White House is insisting on a ceasefire, the new york time.
“I think it was terrible. And I was told that they made a mistake. But I think it’s a terrible thing,” Trump said about the Sumi attack.
On Sunday morning, two ballistic missiles killed Sumi, resulting in at least 34 persons and injuring more than 100 others.
Earlier, the United States President Donald Trump’s special messenger, Steve Witcoff, met Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg to discuss the conflict in Ukraine, told Al Jazira.
On Friday, Putin was shown on state TV, according to Al Jazeera, welcoming Witchoff at St. Petersburg’s President’s Library at the beginning of the talks, and his dialogue lasted for more than four hours.
Kremlin stated that the meeting “focused on various aspects of the Ukrainian settlement”, without expansion.
Earlier, Kremlin spokesperson Dimitri Peskov said that Putin and Vitkoff could discuss the possibility of Russian leader getting face to face with Trump. According to Al Jazeera, Witchoff is now an important person in on-off tet-a-tet between Moscow and Washington amidst talking on the Russian side of a possible joint investment in Arctic and Russian rare earth minerals.
Negotiations took place when the US continued a ceasefire deal to end the struggle, the broker’s efforts that have stopped the terms of the deal.
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